On Sep 24, 2007, at 6:38 AM, Catherine Kinsey wrote:
I finally found it on the web site: <snip> Accession number: 43.243
Again they only show the back of it, and in this lighting you can't
see
how magnificently metallic it is. The museum now dates it to
1610-1615.
I wonder if they disproved the connection to Elizabeth I, who died in
1603.
Unlikely, I'd think. Barring the discovery of new documents, a
connection with a famous person is pretty difficult either to prove
or to disprove.
The date says "about," which I would guess means they are probably
fairly confident about which quarter of the 17th century it's from,
and maybe the decade, but wouldn't want to narrow it down too much
beyond that without some more research.
The MFA Boston actually has a pretty decent textiles collection, but
for a long time they had NO gallery space allotted to it, and even
now there is only one textiles gallery. So most of the collection
sits in storage. They do, however, make it fairly easy to purchase a
good photo of many of their items, even if they're not on display.
There might also be someone in the Boston area on this list who'd be
interested in taking a closer look at it. (I'm only in that area for
a couple of days twice a year or so, visiting my Dad.) In my
experience, if you have a good reason to want to see something close
up, you can usually make an appointment to see something "backstage"
and take photos for your own private use. (You still probably won't
be able to touch things -- a staff member will be with you, though,
so things can be turned over for you to see both sides.)
This type of jacket (obviously) is not knitted, but the MFA also does
have several knitted jackets from about the same time period. If
anyone's in the Yahoo [HistoricKnit] group, my photos of three of the
knitted jackets from the MFA are in a photo album called "jackets"
there.
(That's http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricKnit/ )
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